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Award-winning writer Rich Cohen excavates the real stories behind the legend of infamous criminal enforcers Murder, Inc. and contemplates the question: Where did the tough Jews go?
In 1930s Brooklyn, there lived a breed of men who now exist only in legend and in the memories of a few old-timers: Jewish gangsters, fearless thugs with nicknames like Kid Twist Reles and Pittsburgh Phil Strauss. Growing up in Brownsville, they made their way from street fights to underworld power, becoming the execution squad for a national crime syndicate. Murder Inc. did for organized crime what Henry Ford did for the automobile, and Tough Jews is the first in-depth portrait of these men, a thrilling glimpse at the muscle that made possible the success of gangster statesmen such as Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, and Lucky Luciano.
For Rich Cohen, who grew up in suburban Illinois in the 1980s taunted by the stereotype of Jews as book-reading rule followers, the very idea of the Jewish gangster was a relief; for once, a Jew in jail did not have to be a white-collar criminal. With a clear eye and a comic sensibility, Cohen looks beyond the blood and ultimately encounters each of these ruthless killers’ matzo-ball heart. Tough Jews shows what can happen when a member of the tribe combines brains, heart, and a dangerous determination never to back down.
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This explosive novel of the drug trade takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge. From the streets of New York City to Mexico City and Tijuana to the jungles of Central America, this is the war on drugs like you've never seen it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gripping Drama
- De Deborah en 01-06-11
De: Don Winslow
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A Brotherhood Betrayed
- The Man Behind the Rise and Fall of Murder, Inc.
- De: Michael Cannell
- Narrado por: Gary Galone
- Duración: 12 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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In the fall of 1941, a momentous trial was set to begin that threatened to end the careers and lives of New York’s most brutal mob kingpins. The lead witness, Abe Reles, had been a trusted executioner for Murder, Inc., the enforcement arm of a coast-to-coast mob network known as the Syndicate. But the man responsible for coolly silencing hundreds of informants was about to become the most talkative snitch of all. In exchange for police protection, Reles was prepared to rat out his murderous friends, from Albert Anastasia to Bugsy Siegel....
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4 out of 5 stars
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History from the bottom up
- De Mark en 12-12-21
De: Michael Cannell
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Gangster Squad
- Covert Cops, the Mob, and the Battle for Los Angeles
- De: Paul Lieberman
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 13 h y 55 m
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Gangster Squad chronicles the true story of the secretive police unit that waged an anything-goes war to drive Mickey Cohen and other hoodlums from Los Angeles after WWII. In 1946, the LAPD launched the Gangster Squad with eight men who met covertly on street corners and slept with Tommy guns under their beds. But for two cops, all that mattered was nailing the strutting gangster Mickey Cohen. Sgt. Jack O’Mara was a square-jawed church usher, Sgt. Jerry Wooters a cynical maverick....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Nothing Like the movie
- De KEITH en 02-21-13
De: Paul Lieberman
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The Last Godfather
- The Rise and Fall of Joey Massino
- De: Simon Crittle
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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As head of the Bonanno clan, Joey Massino was the last don, and ran his world with an iron hand - until he got hit with a murder rap, and turned on his own people. Here, for the first time, is his shocking true story - a glimpse inside the world of organized crime that we may never see again.
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1 out of 5 stars
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the 6th family
- De chris torkelson en 05-16-20
De: Simon Crittle
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Detroit
- An American Autopsy
- De: Charlie LeDuff
- Narrado por: Eric Martin
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,180
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,173
In the heart of America, a metropolis is quietly destroying itself. Detroit, once the richest city in the nation, is now its poorest. Once the vanguard of America’s machine age - mass production, automobiles, and blue-collar jobs - Detroit is now America’s capital for unemployment, illiteracy, foreclosure, and dropouts. With the steel-eyed reportage that has become his trademark and the righteous indignation that only a native son can possess, journalist Charlie LeDuff sets out to uncover what has brought low this once-vibrant city, his city.
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3 out of 5 stars
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WOW
- De Avid Reader and Listener en 07-09-13
De: Charlie LeDuff
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Darktown
- A Novel
- De: Thomas Mullen
- Narrado por: Andre Holland
- Duración: 11 h y 47 m
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Responding to pressure from on high, the Atlanta Police Department is forced to hire its first black officers. It's a victory of sorts, though the newly minted policemen are met with deep hostility by their white peers, and their authority is limited: They can't arrest a suspect unless a white officer is present; they can't drive squad cars; they can't even enter the station through the front door.
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5 out of 5 stars
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EXCELLENT Historical Police Procedural
- De shelley en 12-13-17
De: Thomas Mullen
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Gaspipe
- Confessions of a Mafia Boss
- De: Philip Carlo
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
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Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso, the boss of New York's Lucchese crime family, was a Mafia superstar, responsible for more than 50 murders. Currently serving 13 life sentences at a federal prison in Colorado, Casso has given journalist and New York Times best-selling author Philip Carlo the most intimate, personal look into the world of La Cosa Nostra ever seen.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The author fails the objectivity test
- De William en 11-29-08
De: Philip Carlo
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The Vapors
- A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America's Forgotten Capital of Vice
- De: David Hill
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 224
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 183
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 182
Back in the days before Vegas was big, when the Mob was at its peak and neon lights were but a glimmer on the horizon, a little Southern town styled itself as a premier destination for the American leisure class. Hot Springs, Arkansas was home to healing waters, Art Deco splendor, and America's original national park - as well as horse racing, nearly a dozen illegal casinos, countless backrooms and brothels, and some of the country’s most bald-faced criminals.
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1 out of 5 stars
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If you don’t live in Arkansas…
- De JohnFern0813 en 08-14-20
De: David Hill
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The Westies
- Inside New York's Irish Mob
- De: T. J. English
- Narrado por: James Anderson Foster
- Duración: 13 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 823
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It's men like Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone who gave Hell's Kitchen its name. In the mid-1970s, these two longtime friends take the reins of New York's Irish mob, using brute force to give it hitherto unthinkable power. Jimmy, a charismatic sociopath, is the leader. Mickey, whose memories of Vietnam torture him daily, is his enforcer. Together they make brutality their trademark, butchering bodies or hurling them out the window.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book
- De Julio en 06-28-18
De: T. J. English
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One Day
- The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America
- De: Gene Weingarten
- Narrado por: Johnathan McClain
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 141
On New Year’s Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day - chosen completely at random - was Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. Weingarten spent the next six years proving that there is no such thing. That Sunday between Christmas and New Year’s turned out to be filled with comedy, tragedy, implausible irony, cosmic comeuppances, kindness, cruelty, heroism, cowardice, genius, idiocy, and much more....
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3 out of 5 stars
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I'm giving this book more credit for its concept
- De J. F. Boyd en 12-24-19
De: Gene Weingarten
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The Burning
- Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
- De: Tim Madigan
- Narrado por: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Duración: 10 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 317
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 266
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 265
On the morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob numbering in the thousands marched across the railroad tracks dividing black from white in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and obliterated a black community then celebrated as one of America's most prosperous. The Burning will recreate the town of Greenwood at the height of its prosperity, explore the currents of hatred, racism, and mistrust between its black residents and neighboring Tulsa's white population, narrate events leading up to and including Greenwood's annihilation, and document the subsequent silence that surrounded the tragedy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hard to listen to, but a must read.
- De Amazon Customer en 06-17-20
De: Tim Madigan
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West of the West
- Dreamers, Believers, Builders, and Killers in the Golden State
- De: Mark Arax
- Narrado por: Mark Arax
- Duración: 13 h y 39 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 22
Teddy Roosevelt once exclaimed, "When I am in California, I am not in the West. I am west of the West", and in this book, Mark Arax spends four years travelling up and down the Golden State to explore its singular place in the world. This is California beyond the clichés. This is California as only a native son, deep in the dust, could draw it.
De: Mark Arax
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Lay Your Sleeping Head
- The Henry Rios Mysteries, Book 1
- De: Michael Nava
- Narrado por: Thom Rivera
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 91
A completely revised edition of the first Henry Rios mystery, The Little Death, Lay Your Sleeping Head introduces Michael Nava’s singular protagonist, gay Latino criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios. Rios, beset by personal and professional problems, begins a passionate affair with the black sheep heir to a great California fortune who tells Rios an improbable tale of murder and sexual predation in his wealthy family. When the young man is found dead of an apparent drug overdose, Rios begins an investigation that ultimately reveals much more than murder.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved It
- De Leah Brock en 06-20-20
De: Michael Nava
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Trejo
- My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
- De: Danny Trejo, Donal Logue
- Narrado por: Danny Trejo, Donal Logue
- Duración: 13 h y 19 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 2,518
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,280
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,282
On screen, Danny Trejo the actor is a baddie who has been killed at least a hundred times. He’s been shot, stabbed, hanged, chopped up, squished by an elevator, and once, was even melted into a bloody goo. Off screen, he’s a hero beloved by recovery communities and obsessed fans alike. But the real Danny Trejo is much more complicated than the legend.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best book ever!
- De Nicolas Rocha en 07-08-21
De: Danny Trejo, y otros
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Midnight in Mexico
- A Reporter's Journey through a Country's Descent into Darkness
- De: Alfredo Corchado
- Narrado por: Timothy Andres Pabon
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 435
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 385
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 381
Noted Mexican American journalist Alfredo Corchado refuses to shrink from reporting on government corruption, murders in Juarez, or the ruthless drug cartels of Mexico. One night, Corchado received a tip that he could be the next target of the Zetas, a violent paramilitary group - and that he had 24 hours to find out if the threat was true. Midnight in Mexico is the story of one man's quest to report the truth of his country - as he races to save his own life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating & suspenseful historical non-fiction!
- De Ruth Barrie en 06-30-19
De: Alfredo Corchado
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The Dillinger Days
- De: John Toland
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 12 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 557
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 512
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 512
For 13 violent months in the 1930s, John Dillinger and his gang swept through the Midwest. The criminals of the Depression robbed almost at will, as the Indiana State Police had only 41 members, including clerks and typists. Dillinger's daring escapes at Crown Point jail or through the withering machine gun fire of FBI agents at Little Bohemia Lodge, along with his countless bank robberies, excited the imagination of a despondent country.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Must have been written by Hoover
- De Jimmy Oneal en 09-03-20
De: John Toland
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The Good Assassin
- How a Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down the Butcher of Latvia
- De: Stephan Talty
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 239
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 208
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 208
The untold story of an Israeli spy’s epic journey to bring the notorious Butcher of Latvia to justice - a case that altered the fates of all ex-Nazis.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful: A complete history wrapped in a story
- De Aaron en 04-22-20
De: Stephan Talty
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Mob Rules
- What the Mafia Can Teach the Legitimate Businessman
- De: Louis Ferrante
- Narrado por: Louis Ferrante
- Duración: 5 h y 47 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 109
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 94
As an associate of the Gambino family, Ferrante relied on his instincts to pull off some of the biggest heists in US history. By the age of 21, he had netted millions of dollars for his employers. His natural talent for management led Mafia bosses to rely on him. After being arrested and serving an eight-and-a-half-year prison sentence, Ferrante went straight. He realized that the Mob's most valuable business lessons would allow him to survive and thrive in the real world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very sound advice!!!
- De Ken en 02-17-25
De: Louis Ferrante
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Tough Jews
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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- Robby Weisenfeld
- 02-25-23
Great book!
Rich Cohen is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. I think he depicts Jews and Jewish culture in America through various generations so incredibly well. This book is fantastic. Interesting historical and personal takes and accounts.
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- Brad
- 02-28-23
A beautiful ‘remember when’
Hard to believe this time and these people ever existed, but Rich Cohen brings it all to life in vivid prose
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- Alednam A Uonopk
- 09-19-24
Had the physical but wanted to listen.....
Good book. Worth the read.... The book has pics that the audio didn't have but all in all, well worth it....
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- Anonymous User
- 02-16-23
Fantastic!
One of my favorite books of all time! I’ve read this several times in paperback and was thrilled to see it finally added to audible. Having the author narrate enhances the experience as he nails the pronunciations and inflections that make the stories come alive. I look forward to listening again!
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- frankothomas
- 06-05-23
Great book!
Very interesting and informative book that talks about past times and people that were extremely unique and a dying breed
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- Tony the Tour Guy
- 02-10-23
OK, but ultimately disappointing
I got this book to learn about an important part of our town’s and country’s history. Yeah, I learned some things about the famous Jewish gangsters, but the author kept skipping about, and spent a lot of time on his thoughts about post-mob days, and his own family, whose story is not relevant to the topic of this book. It’s also very incomplete in telling the ultimate fates of some mobsters..
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